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EURO/CFD, an engineering company specialized in numerical calculation, has just announced that it acquired a new HPC cluster built around AMD’s Opteron 6200 Series “Interlagos” processors, which can deliver 12 TeraFlops of performance at its peak speed.
In order to achieve this feat, the cluster in... |
14 February 2012
18:01 GMT |
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The Radeon HD 7770 might not be out yet, but the first leaked pictures of an XFX HD 7770 have already reached the Web, letting us all have a look at this next-gen midrange gaming graphics card.
Right from the get-go, it becomes apparent that this new Black Edition HD 7770 is somewhat a replica of XFX’ Radeon H... |
14 February 2012
10:36 GMT |
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Advanced Micro Devices and VIA may not make the news as often as Intel does on the enterprise computer market, but HP has decided to change this a bit by releasing both types of thin clients.
The company has two new thin clients to offer, dubbed HP t610 Flexible Series Thin Client and HP t510 Thin Client.
The form... |
14 February 2012
03:45 GMT |
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In less than a day from now, AMD is expected to make official the Radeon HD 7700 graphics card series, but for those of you that can’t wait to see how these new Cape Verde-based GPUs perform, a Chinese website has posted a benchmark of the HD 7770 running 3DMark 11.
The Radeon HD 7770 card used by the tester w... |
14 February 2012
03:12 GMT |
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With two days left to go until AMD launches its Radeon HD 7700-series of mainstream graphics cards, a GPU-Z screenshot of the Radeon HD 7770 has made its appearance on the Web, confirming the specs of this GPU. This graphics core will come as the direct descendant of the Radeon HD 5770 and its HD 6770 rebrand, since... |
13 February 2012
14:01 GMT |
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After we presented a series of basic info about AMD’s upcoming A10- and A8-Series APUs last week, a new leak has now reached the Web to reveal not only the names of these chips, but also their specs, including CPU and GPU clock speeds.
Just as it has previously done with Llano, AMD decided to split the Trinity... |
13 February 2012
06:11 GMT |
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Thermalright decided this was a good time for a new CPU cooler to grace the consumer market, so it has released the Silver Arrow SB-E.This thing is one large beast with two fin towers and just as many fans.It supports AM2, AM2+, AM3, AM3+ and FMI CPUs from AMD, as well as LGA 2011, 1366, 1156, 1155 and 775 chips from... |
11 February 2012
06:32 GMT |
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Introduced by AMD just three months ago, the company’s Opteron 6200-series "Interlagos" CPU range will soon receive the addition of six new processors with slightly better specs than their predecessors. According to CPU-World, the new models will feature 200MHz higher clock and Turbo Core frequencies at the sa... |
10 February 2012
19:01 GMT |
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AMD has already confirmed that its next-generation Trinity APUs will become available in mid-2012, but a recently leaked company roadmap has now arrived to give us more details about the launch of these APUs, as well as about the Brazos 2.0 and Vishera processors.
The first new chips to come out from AMD will arrive... |
10 February 2012
17:01 GMT |
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Advanced Micro Devices has decided to use a rather unusual marketing tactic in order to raise awareness about its upcoming Cape Verde GPU and the Radeon HD 77xx video cards. As this special website will be all too eager to show, the Sunnyvale, California-based company has begun sending pills to Internet websites. ... |
10 February 2012
05:47 GMT |
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We've seen the unique traits of the NVIDIA Kepler GPUs that will power the GeForce 600 line of graphics cards and, now, the specifications of the AMD Radeon HD 7750 and 7770 graphics cards have been uncovered as well.
The Cape Verde graphics processing unit (GPU) is the chip that will act as the heart of these... |
10 February 2012
05:17 GMT |
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It appears that the management changes at Advanced Micro Devices are far from over, with yet another company executive taking his leave.
In a rather short announcement, Sunnyvale, California-based Advanced Micro Devices has let the world know that Emilio Ghilardi is departing.
The man had held the position of sen... |
8 February 2012
08:01 GMT |
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AMD has just added two new processors to its Athlon II X4 range, both of these chips being based on the Llano architecture traditionally used for A-Series APUs.
With the launch of Llano in mid-2011, everybody expected AMD to retire the Athlon II and Sempron brands that were previously used for mid-range processors o... |
8 February 2012
06:11 GMT |
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It appears that even the latest low-power CPUs and APUs released by Intel and Advanced Micro Devices haven't won the hearts of notebook makers. There are things afoot on the mobile consumer electronics market, things that don't paint a promising picture for AMD and Intel. According to Digitimes, neither ... |
8 February 2012
05:54 GMT |
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Thanks to a team of researchers from North Carolina State University, we may not have to wait until 2014 for faster hybrid APUs and CPUs to become available.
AMD said, during the Financial Analyst Day, that it would have “fully fused” accelerated processing units by 2014.
Fortunately, we won't ha... |
8 February 2012
03:31 GMT |
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There was a report, a few days ago, saying that IBM was making processors for Advanced Micro Devices, but the Sunnyvale, California-based chip company has now denied the rumor. Though there is indeed a sort of collaboration with AMD, IBM has not made any chips for it and is not about to start doing so either. Ins... |
8 February 2012
02:38 GMT |
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Gigabyte has stealthily introduced a mid-range motherboard designed for central processing units (CPUs) from Advanced Micro Devices (AMD).
The new platform from Gigabyte features the AM3+ CPU socket and is part of the Ultra Durable 4 Classic series.
It bears the name of GA-970A-DS3 and, though its price is still s... |
7 February 2012
03:10 GMT |
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With the Financial Analyst Day out of the way, Advanced Micro Devices has gone back to work, and it looks like the professional graphics card market is getting served first.
AMD has announced the FirePro V3900 graphics adapter, an entry-level product that claims to deliver “up to 95% better application perform... |
7 February 2012
02:37 GMT |
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AMD has said in the past, several times, that it is fully committed to x86, but this no longer seems to mean that a partnership with ARM is totally impossible.
Advanced Micro Devices has always been a rival to Intel on the market for central processing units based on the x86 architecture.
However, the ARM archite... |
6 February 2012
16:11 GMT |
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AMD disclosed during a recent analyst event that the chip maker has started manufacturing processors in IBM’s foundries in a possible attempt to try to boost production of its upcoming A-Series Trinity APUs. “We win together, we have partnership in good times and in difficult times. What we are seeing ... |
6 February 2012
03:15 GMT |
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When explaining what direction Advanced Micro Devices was going to follow, the company's chief executive officer (CEO) implied that it might have already grabbed the interest of a major product maker.
Advanced Micro Devices revealed many things during its Financial Analyst Day, some good (like plans for a &ldq... |
6 February 2012
02:43 GMT |
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Netbooks may have lost most of their fame, but ASUS still thinks there are enough people out there who might want one, especially when that “one” has an AMD APU at its core.
Advanced Micro Devices may not have paid much mind to the mobile PC market over the years, but that changed when its Heterogeneous... |
4 February 2012
04:49 GMT |
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If anyone was afraid that AMD would pull the plug on any of its video products, they can rest easy knowing that in this field, at least, the company intends to put all the effort it can muster, instead of canceling plans and letting things stagnate.
Today is AMD's Financial Analyst Day (February 3, 2012), when... |
3 February 2012
19:41 GMT |
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AMD’s Trinity ultra-low voltage APUs, that are scheduled to be released by the company in the middle of this year in order to counter Intel’s ULV processors, are expected to provide up to 100% better graphics performance than today’s Ultrabook CPUs. At the end of the presentation held by Lisa Su, S... |
3 February 2012
18:51 GMT |
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AMD has officially announced that 2012 will witness the introduction of a new low-power APU, code-named Hondo, specially developed to be used in tablet devices, which will improve upon the specs of the current Desna Z-01 accelerated processing unit. AMD made the existence of this chip official during the company&rsq... |
3 February 2012
17:01 GMT |
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Dell will soon launch a new notebook from the Alienware series, the line known for being both powerful and good-looking.
Bearing the name of M18x R2, it will be so powerful that it will barely break a sweat when playing a game, regardless of how hardcore the graphics settings are.
The again, when a PC has mighty, n... |
3 February 2012
11:27 GMT |
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If anyone was looking forward to AMD kicking things into high gear on the high-end CPU market, they will have to live with the disappointment of learning that nothing of the sort is going to happen.
That is not to say that the Sunnyvale, California-based company will completely stop making high-end CPUs (central pr... |
3 February 2012
08:06 GMT |
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Together with its APU and CPU plans for 2012, AMD also made public the company’s 2013 processors roadmap, which includes the Tamesh, Kabini and Kaveri accelerated processing units fabricated using 28nm process technology. The most important change introduced by AMD with its 2013 APUs is the move to the GCN gra... |
3 February 2012
06:11 GMT |
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Over the past week, the video market has been filled with news about AMD's latest graphics card, Radeon HD 7950, but PowerColor is now going back to the stronger HD 7970, even giving it liquid cooling.
Going right to the point, PowerColor has revealed the LCD HD7970, a new iteration of the AMD Radeon HD 7970 g... |
3 February 2012
05:02 GMT |
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AMD's recent Financial Analyst Day event exposed many things about what the company would and wouldn't be doing over the next few years, but that wasn't everything that was revealed.
It so happens that, in addition to AMD itself, Compal also made a revelation, or it might be more accurate to say that... |
3 February 2012
03:42 GMT |
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During the company’s 2012 Financial Analyst Day, AMD outlined its APU and CPU strategy for 2012, thus confirming the Brazos 2.0, Hondo and Vishera processors, together with their approximate launch schedule. Out of the three, Brazos 2.0 will be the first chip to see the light of day, as these APUs are schedule... |
3 February 2012
03:05 GMT |
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Advanced Micro Devices, having just changed its Opteron CPU plans, has reportedly made a very intriguing promise in regards to its Heterogeneous Computing roadmap and the year 2014. One of the main disadvantages of AMD's APUs (accelerated processing units) is that they cannot be used properly unless the softwa... |
3 February 2012
03:04 GMT |
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Advanced Micro Devices has announced a decision to change its roadmap for server processing units, though it did not give a specific reason for this.
The update plans do away with certain chips and, one might say, slows down the rate at which new Opterons get to the selling stage.
One change is that the existing s... |
3 February 2012
02:31 GMT |
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AMD’s upcoming A10 and A8 Trinity APUs have just been spotted in the specifications sheet of a recently announced Arctic HTPC system dubbed the MC101, that is said to become available right after the chip maker will launch these next-gen processors. Arctic’s HTPC solution will be available in three diffe... |
2 February 2012
02:55 GMT |
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AMD’s launch of the multiplier unlocked A8-3870K and A6-3670K processors have enabled overclockers to push Llano APUs to higher frequencies than ever before, such a chip just surpassing the 6GHz barrier during a recent OC competition.n. The processor in question is actually the A8-3870K APU which, with the hel... |
1 February 2012
21:21 GMT |
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AMD is getting ready to update its FX-Series processor lineup based on the Bulldozer architecture with two new chips packing four and respectively six processing cores, which will also be joined by a new FX-8150 bundle.
This bundle was dubbed the FX-8150 (WOX) by the chip maker, the WOX suffix at the end of its name... |
1 February 2012
18:51 GMT |
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Club3D, a company specialized in developing graphics card based on AMD’s as well as Nvidia’s GPUs, announced the introduction of a new solution designed around AMD’s recently unveiled Radeon HD 7950.
Club3D graphics card doesn’t seem to differ in any way from AMD’s reference design for ... |
1 February 2012
06:07 GMT |
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Yesterday, January 31, was the day when AMD's latest graphics card got launched, so today is the day the world reacts, starting with developers of gaming desktops, like Maingear.
As it did for more or less every other powerful graphics card released by NVIDIA or Advanced Micro Devices, Maingear has adopted the... |
1 February 2012
04:05 GMT |
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Just like every other AMD add-in board partner out there, HIS Digital also unveiled a Radeon HD 7950 graphics card of its own, targeting high-resolution gamers and enthusiasts alike.
Compared to most other video card makers, HIS has decided to stick with AMD’s reference design for the HIS 7950 Fan 3GB GDDR5, w... |
1 February 2012
02:54 GMT |
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Besides the Radeon HD 7700 series, AMD’s Graphics Core Next (GCN) video card lineup also includes the HD 7800 range that is expected to arrive into the retail space in March of this year, according to a leaked MSI roadmap.
AMD’s initial Radeon HD 7800 series will include two video cards featuring the sam... |
31 January 2012
17:01 GMT |
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On February 15, AMD seems set to introduce its next series of graphics cards based on the Generation Core Next (GCN) architecture, which will be released into the Radeon HD 7700 series and target the mainstream market.
For starters, the Radeon HD 7700 lineup will include two video cards, the HD 7770 and the HD7750, ... |
31 January 2012
16:11 GMT |
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Just like most other AMD add-in board partners, Gigabyte also announced earlier today a Radeon HD 7950 graphics card of its own, that uses the company’s proprietary WindForce 3 design in order to deliver faster than stock performance.
The most distinctive feature of the Gigabyte video card, which carries the m... |
31 January 2012
14:31 GMT |
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Since Advanced Micro Devices finally made the official introduction of the Radeon HD 7950, PowerColor decided to reveal its own two cards.
We have already seen the video controllers prepared by VTX3D and Micro-Star International (with and without Twin Frozr III cooling).
Now, we are looking at PowerColor, otherwi... |
31 January 2012
10:21 GMT |
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Inphi Corporation has just announced that AMD's Opteron 6200 series of processors is ready to use its load-reduced dual-inline memory modules (LRDIMMs) featuring Inphi's Isolation Memory Buffer (iMB).
Of course, it would be much more accurate to say that Inphi's memory is finally ready to work in ser... |
31 January 2012
09:44 GMT |
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We may have already written about two MSI Radeon HD 7950 graphics cards, but that does not mean that the company has only that particular pair up for grabs.
In fact, the official announcement on the part of Micro-Star International spoke of four boards in total, two of which were covered here.
The other two adapt... |
31 January 2012
09:41 GMT |
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Micro-Star International seems to have been one of the first companies to unleash its custom-built Radeon HD 7950 graphics adapters, as part of two series.
Two of the graphics cards that MSI has revealed are called R7950-2PMD3GD5 and R7950-2PMD3GD5/OC.
As their names imply, the first one sticks to the reference s... |
31 January 2012
08:01 GMT |
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As some may have learned by now, AMD's partners have started releasing their respective versions of the Radeon HD 7950 graphics adapter. It was known from a while back that Advanced Micro Devices would unleash the Radeon HD 7950 graphics card on January 31, 2012. Sure enough, the release has taken place, so ... |
31 January 2012
06:51 GMT |
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Sapphire, one of AMD’s closest add-in board partners, has just announced the release of two new graphics cards based on the Radeon HD 7950 design, including one factory overclocked model with a 900MHz GPU clock.
Both of these cards use a cooling system developed in-house by Sapphire, the standard clocked versi... |
31 January 2012
06:11 GMT |
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Hot on the heels of AMD’s launch of the Radeon HD 7950, XFX announced a new Black Edition graphics card based on this design, that uses a custom cooling solution in order to overclock the GPU to 900MHz.
XFX’ Radeon HD 7950 Black Edition is based on the same “dual dissipation” cooler used by t... |
31 January 2012
03:53 GMT |
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With the Radeon HD 7950 now out, Asus made official a trio of graphics cards based on this design, including a pair of DirectCU II models featuring the company’s trademark design specially tuned for overclockers and enthusiasts. Just like their predecessors, the DirectCU II graphics cards use a massive cooler ... |
31 January 2012
02:57 GMT |
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